Wastewater treatment – Page 2 – King County Wastewater Treatment Division

November 26, 2018

King County’s Georgetown Wet Weather Treatment Station celebrates Platinum Achievement Award for Sustainability

King County’s Georgetown Wet Weather Treatment Station (WWTS) has earned the coveted “Platinum” rating from the Institute for Sustainable Infrastructure’s Envision rating system. This is the first Platinum-awarded Envision project in Washington and recognizes the County’s commitment to sustainable communities…

WTD Updates

November 19, 2018

Updating Industrial Waste Fee Structure: Surcharge Customers Fall 2018

Businesses that send “high strength” or concentrated organic wastewater to the sewer system pay more because it costs more to treat this wastewater. KCIW’s Surcharge Fee currently includes the costs for both treating concentrated “high-strength” waste at a treatment plant…

Infrastructure Operations

August 7, 2018

Finding hidden value at the bottom of a sedimentation tank

A big mechanical job at our West Point Treatment Plant replaced a special part of our sedimentation tanks. The sedimentation tanks are part of how we clean everyone's sewer water. What’s the real cost? Have you ever been undecided when…

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Operations People

May 25, 2018

Chief Operating Officer meets with treatment plant employees

Cross-posted from KC Employee News Casey Sixkiller, Chief Operating Officer for King County Executive Dow Constantine, has been out meeting employees and leaders at worksites across the county since joining Executive Constantine’s Senior Leadership Team in February to learn more…

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Operations People

September 26, 2017

Poofighters rock on and take the stage at world’s biggest, most extreme, wastewater Ops Challenge at WEFTEC in Chicago

When asked why he became a wastewater operator, Darek Kenaston reveals, “The more I got into it, the more I was interested. It was a good fit. I’ve always been around the water. I grew up in Florida, two blocks…

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WTD Updates

August 31, 2017

Where are those trucks going?

King County has for decades used an endlessly renewable resource to support healthy soils and crops. Read about it and watch the video!

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Community People

August 17, 2017

CitySoil Farm hosts a special group of summer campers

King County hosts a special group of campers at CitySoil Farm. They learned how we protect people and the environment, and helped provide for families just like theirs.

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Operations

April 7, 2017

West Point Update: Fine Tuning the Biology

With 24/7 care, restoration of the complex microbes that clean our wastewater is on track.

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People

September 28, 2016

Who are the ‘Poofighters’?

If you’ve been following along on our Instagram and Twitter, you’ll notice we’ve been talking a lot about the “Poofighters.” But who is this mysterious group? Despite what the name might suggest, the Poofighters are not a group of volunteers…

People

September 19, 2016

Sharing Our Know-How Across the Globe

Many developing Asian countries face unique challenges delivering quality wastewater services. In an effort to mentor these communities, a team of WTD employees participated in information sharing with a growing utility called URENCO in Dong Hoi, Vietnam. The collaboration was…

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